Posted by yesac on December 12, 2006, at 13:54:21
In reply to Re: Tricyclics » yesac, posted by Quintal on December 11, 2006, at 18:43:27
> I'm planning to go to Peru (or perhaps elsewhere) to take Ayahuasca. I'm very interested in it right now and I'm likely to get a lot out of the experience in my current frame of mind. This influences the medication I could take because the brew contains an MAOI.
Ayahuasca? I guess I'll have to look that one up....
> Isn't DBT mainly used for Borderline Personality Disorder? May I ask your diagnosis?Yes, it was originally designed by Marsha Linehan for people with suicidal ideation and sometimes self-injury behaviors. But I guess someone decided that it needed to be associated with a diagnosis, and it therefore became known as a treatment specifically for BPD, even though that is not what she had intended. Many people still believe that it is a treatment only for BPD. This is not true. It can be useful for many diagnoses/symptoms, particularly those associated with depression, anxiety, bipolar, and trauma. But in all honesty, I really believe that some aspects of DBT could be useful for many many people, even those without a psychiatric diagnosis per se.
I guess you could say that my primary diagnosis is depression NOS. My psychiatrist and I don't like to get too hung up on diagnoses. I have a pretty severe, chronic, unremitting depression that also has some bipolar "features" if you will, such as extreme agitation and periods of hyped-up-ness and mind racing. I also have a lot of pretty severe attention problems and some social anxiety/uneasiness. Call it what you will. I just think that mental health/illness is much too complicated to try to reduce to a name or names, although I recognize that there is some use in diagnosing. Still-- there is just so much that we don't understand about the brain and nervous system. It bothers me to hear people oversimplifying mental illness, the way drugs work, etc.
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